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Setting Up an Automotive BDC – Car Dealer Best Practices
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. The Five Absolute Musts for a Successful Automotive Sales BDC. If you’re like most dealers I speak with lately, you’re either looking to add a Business Development Center (aka BDC) or trying to find ways to make your current BDC more successful? If so, then there are just a few simple must haves that are truly non-negotiable if you’d like your BDC to succeed today and over the long term. MUST #1: BDC’s Must be Profit (not Cost) Centers.
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What Car Dealers Must Do to Stay Competitive in a Down Market
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. The 5 Things Dealers and OEMs Can Do Today to Stay On Top During the Next Downturn. The average length of a new car loan in 2014 was 66 months. The number of subprime borrowers missing payments is at the highest level in over 6 years. We saw a softening of overall (non-automotive) retail sales beginning in the fourth quarter. Roughly 56% of American adults do not have a full-time job. The good news about the five pieces of advice I pro...
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You’re Above Average? Stop Celebrating Mediocrity
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. What’s the Average Closing Percentage for Automotive Leads 30, 60 and 90 Days Old? I recently received a variation of this question from a visitor to my free video training website. And given that many automotive managers, salespeople and BDC agents likely have the same question, I thought I’d post my original answer here, as well as expand a little on your goals, in general. First, the actual question:. Now, my original answer:. The a...
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Why a BDC is the Best Sales Structure for Your Car Dealership
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. What’s the Best Internet Sales Structure for My Dealership? At virtually every dealership 20 group I address, at least one dealer will ask the question I hear most often with respect to internet sales:. What’s the best internet sales structure for a dealer today: End-to-End; a BDC; or giving the leads to the floor? Today, I simply respond BDC. There’s the BDC and then there’s Everything Else. But My End-to-End Internet Team Rocks!
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Dear Walmart: Please Train Your Own Damn Managers!
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. Dear Walmart: Please Train Your Own Damn Managers! I had a fun exchange with Walmart on Twitter last month that I believe deserves sharing here especially given that the exchange can (I’m hopeful) remind corporations to separate my duties as a customer and their duties as an employer when it comes to training their managers. First, a little background:. People don’t choose Walmart to be sold. Believe it or not, I don’t choose Walmart t...
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Automotive Mystery Shops
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Advanced Solutions to Advance Your Business. We mystery shopped over 400 dealers for our study on how well dealers respond to e-leads. Click the image above to download our free White Paper now! Your team must get the prospect on the phone! Your emails and voicemails must compel your customer to call or text you so that you can set the appointment that will show on time and buy! Scroll below to learn even more). INDUSTRY'S BEST - FULL AUTOMOTIVE INTERNET SALES MYSTERY SHOPS. IMPROVE YOUR TEAM'S REAL RESP...
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Delta Zones and the Ubiquitous Gate Crowders
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. Delta Zones and the Ubiquitous Gate Crowders. Gate crowding (rushing the departure gate for your flight as soon as any announcement has been made) is both an art form and a completely insane waste of your time and mine. Let me start this post with a quick axiom:. We’re all going to arrive at the same time. No, it does not. Of course, like everything else in your life, this is not your fault. Seriously, gate crowding is not the faul...
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How to Win Over the Jerks and Assholes at Work
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Leadership Development and Management Training. The Best & The Worst. How to Get Ahead While Winning Over the Backstabbing Jerks at Work. I wish I was the first person who ever uttered this unbelievably accurate view of the world. I wish I was the first, because it truly does not matter what is what; perception really is reality. Moreover, perception is reality in both your business and your personal lives. The saying that perception is reality is as true and unyielding as the Law of Gravity. Let’s assum...
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industries
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Advanced Solutions to Advance Your Business. Industry Leading Solutions To Advance Your Business. Here are just a few of the industries where our strategic solutions provide value and drive results:. Pladoogle helps traditional media leverage the power of their online properties to replace lost advertising revenue and drive consumer awareness campaigns. At pladoogle, we build value for our media clients by helping them leverage additional revenue streams, all while delivering exponential results to t...
